15.4.13

“Discarded”, a selection of artists of interfacegallery.com by invited
curator Deniz Erbaş, is a group exhibition on metaphors reproduced by means of
recycling strategies of art for the body which at first is fully invested in by
the system only to be discarded later on.

www.interfacegallery.com, a communication project of the alternative art and culture platform
HAYAKA ARTI which aims to “provide free circulation of art between the virtual
and physical world”, is opening its second exhibition on April, 18th
in Tophane. The concept “Interface” and the discussion- encounter platform it
has introduced over the web, is for the second time carried into the physical
space of a gallery to reflect on the existence of art production within virtual
and physical spheres. Invited curator Deniz Erbaş has asked all artists included
in her selection from over 300 profiles present on the web platform interfacegallery.com,
to propose artworks talking back to the conceptual framework of “bio-power”. Thus
body and life that we are frequently forced to witness to full extent in all
aspects through media and communication channels or political agendas, long
fallen within the interest of power, have constituted the main theme of this
exhibition. These works, disintegrating the body together with its living space
and then rejoining the two by means of techniques such as collage, painting,
photography and so on, while presenting fictions as to the existence of body
within private, public and political realms, also manage to make room for reflection
on the concept of bio-power. Social stereotypes such as sexual identity,
womanhood, marriage, professional life, career and family, modes and potentials
of the body‑turning into an object of politics‑and the cycle of life, the
relationship between power and body are among the subjects of artists who
participate in this exhibition.

Today we are living in a world where power
mechanisms do no longer function through regions, geographies, patches of land or
physical territories, but through the very lives, biological existences, bodies
of people and societies. Power turning towards the body by means of several exclusion,
confinement, surveillance, life preserving and terminating mechanisms in
different fields of life such as education, health, and law practices, is now in
possession of all necessary means to keep under control and shape the body and
movements of each individual and thereby leaves no need for implementation of massive,
general domination practices on the society. The body becomes politicized, and
the more it does so, the fields to demonstrate individual opposition, rebellion
and resistance also diversify. The exhibition “Discarded”, under these
circumstances, intends to revisit the deep-rooted relationship between art,
body and bodily life through the paradigm of actual art productions.